IV.i.7 (321,1)

[since it is in my power

To o'erthrow law, and in one self-born hour

To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass

The same I am, ere ancient'st order was,

Or what is now receiv'd]

The reasoning of _Time_ is not very clear! he seems to mean, that

he who has broke so many laws may now break another; that he who

introduced every thing, may introduce Perdita on her sixteenth

year; and he intreats that he may pass as of old, before any

_order_ or succession of objects, ancient or modern, distinguished

his periods.

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